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DIRECTV customers will be treated to a Starz Super Pack free preview, where they can enjoy the full suite of all 12 Starz and Encore movie channels free of charge from March 19-22, 2009. During that time frame, customers will be on board for the premium TV debut of Made of Honor, starring Patrick Dempsey and other great Starz movies, such as Spider-Man, Enchanted, and National Treasure: Book of Secrets.

From Starz? Really? I'm just looking at this from the free preview point of view. They wouldn't get me to spend extra money, I would have thought a free preview would try to entice people to purchase this package. I'm not knocking you paulman and certainly don't mean any disrespect. I just find this to be a "weak" preview.

From Starz? Really? I'm just looking at this from the free preview point of view. They wouldn't get me to spend extra money, I would have thought a free preview would try to entice people to purchase this package. I'm not knocking you paulman and certainly don't mean any disrespect. I just find this to be a "weak" preview.

I have to agree with this particular preview week to be a bit lacking although personally I found about 6 movies to record for later. The Starz package has more channels than the others for the money. The selection isn't always that great, but if I were to buy a premium, which I don't, it would probably be Starz.

From Starz? Really? I'm just looking at this from the free preview point of view. They wouldn't get me to spend extra money, I would have thought a free preview would try to entice people to purchase this package. I'm not knocking you paulman and certainly don't mean any disrespect. I just find this to be a "weak" preview.

No problem. I haven't really looked to see what is on during the preview week.

Movies are my "thing" and I watch a lot of them that most people either wouldn't watch or have never heard of.

Equipment includes a buncha stuff that I no longer have interest in detailing

One cool thing to do during these free previews is to highlight the channel name in the guide and press "Info". Then you can scroll through the whole 3-4 days for each channel and find the stuff worth recording pretty quickly.

One cool thing to do during these free previews is to highlight the channel name in the guide and press "Info". Then you can scroll through the whole 3-4 days for each channel and find the stuff worth recording pretty quickly.

yea i think there is even a wishlist item on that to give more than just what is essentially only 4 shows at a time (it shows 5 but the last show is repeated as the 1st on the next page.)